LMFT Exam Questions and Answers
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3 primary phenomena that emerged into MFT - ✔✔Psychoanalysis, group
therapy, and race to cure schizophrenia (and Bateson's research of family
communication)
Betrand Russell - ✔✔Theory of logical types (to define hierarchies based
on level of abstraction)
Norbert Weiner - ✔✔Cybernetics - Family has feedback loops(ongoing) to
self-correct a family system
refined Shannon-Weaver Model of Communication by adding two new
features: feedback is an essential feature of effective communication & said
a communication theory which focuses only on information overlooks
important dimensions of human communication. (Overlooks feelings,
motives, needs, history, etc.)
Ludwig von Bertalanffy - ✔✔General Systems Theory- parts of systems are
interrelated, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This concept
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,was advanced but Kurt Lewis within Field Theory. General systems theory
was first applied to groups.
John Bowlby - ✔✔attachment theory- secure attachment, insecure
attachment (anxious-resistant and anxious-avoidant types), and
disorganized/disoriented attachment.
Paul Popenoe - ✔✔Founded the American Institute of Family Relations on
the west coast
Emily Mudd - ✔✔-1932 founded Marriage Council of Philadelphia, which
became AAMFT in 1979.
John Bell - ✔✔May have been the first to treat families. He did so in
multiple family therapy groups and called his approach family group
therapy (child-centered phase, parent-centered phase, and family-centered
phase)
Robert MacGregor - ✔✔Multiple Impact Theory as a way to have maximum
impact on families who came from all over Texas to spend several days
with a team of professionals
Don Jackson - ✔✔Conjoint Therapy, marital therapy in which the spouses
were seen together
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,Josef Breuer - ✔✔studied the effects of hypnotism and used it to treat
patients with hysteria, first treated "Anna O" with what she then deemed the
Talking Cure. Breuer later referred to it as the Cathartic Method. Freud
expanded on this concept into what we now know Psychoanalysis
Alfred Adler - ✔✔Believed that the individual was influenced by more than
internal drives (Freud) and instead identified the role of society and others
had on individual personality development and functioning. He launched
the Child Guidance Movement in Austria, which was brought to US by
Rudolph Dreikers. Adele's concepts: overcompensation for felt inferiority,
social interest, sibling birth order, and working with families in front of a live
audience.
Nathan Ackerman - ✔✔Classified the family as a solitary unit of treatment
(family system as a client). He was always lively and open to effective use
of therapist self-disclosure while emphasizing the importance of paying
attention to non-verbal cues as a means to understanding the hidden and
unspoken aspects of family functioning. Most notable intervention: Tickling
the Defenses teasing, provoking, and stimulating the members of a family
to open up and say what is really on their minds. FATHER OF FAMILY
THERAPY
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, Lyman Wynne - ✔✔Applied psychoanalytic ideas to his work with families
with severe mental and physical disorders. His concepts: pseudomutuality-
systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that hides conflict and
interferes with intimacy, pseudo hostility- volatile and intense way of
disguising and distorting both affection and splits, Rubber-Fence boundary-
the families seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly impermeable to
information from outside systems.
Kurt Lewin (group therapy) - ✔✔Field theory, " the whole of group was
greater than the sum of its individuals". Developed the process of change:
1) unfreezing- creating the motivation and readiness to change, 2)
changing- helping the client to see, judge, feel, and react to things
differently, based on a new point of view, 3) refreezing- helping the client to
integrate the new point of view into the organization as well as the
individual personality).
Wilfred Bion (Group therapy) - ✔✔Studied groups, importance of group
dynamics, Process vs. content
Jacob Moreno (Group therapy) - ✔✔Created a term Psychodrama
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100% Solved | Graded A+
3 primary phenomena that emerged into MFT - ✔✔Psychoanalysis, group
therapy, and race to cure schizophrenia (and Bateson's research of family
communication)
Betrand Russell - ✔✔Theory of logical types (to define hierarchies based
on level of abstraction)
Norbert Weiner - ✔✔Cybernetics - Family has feedback loops(ongoing) to
self-correct a family system
refined Shannon-Weaver Model of Communication by adding two new
features: feedback is an essential feature of effective communication & said
a communication theory which focuses only on information overlooks
important dimensions of human communication. (Overlooks feelings,
motives, needs, history, etc.)
Ludwig von Bertalanffy - ✔✔General Systems Theory- parts of systems are
interrelated, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This concept
1
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,was advanced but Kurt Lewis within Field Theory. General systems theory
was first applied to groups.
John Bowlby - ✔✔attachment theory- secure attachment, insecure
attachment (anxious-resistant and anxious-avoidant types), and
disorganized/disoriented attachment.
Paul Popenoe - ✔✔Founded the American Institute of Family Relations on
the west coast
Emily Mudd - ✔✔-1932 founded Marriage Council of Philadelphia, which
became AAMFT in 1979.
John Bell - ✔✔May have been the first to treat families. He did so in
multiple family therapy groups and called his approach family group
therapy (child-centered phase, parent-centered phase, and family-centered
phase)
Robert MacGregor - ✔✔Multiple Impact Theory as a way to have maximum
impact on families who came from all over Texas to spend several days
with a team of professionals
Don Jackson - ✔✔Conjoint Therapy, marital therapy in which the spouses
were seen together
2
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
,Josef Breuer - ✔✔studied the effects of hypnotism and used it to treat
patients with hysteria, first treated "Anna O" with what she then deemed the
Talking Cure. Breuer later referred to it as the Cathartic Method. Freud
expanded on this concept into what we now know Psychoanalysis
Alfred Adler - ✔✔Believed that the individual was influenced by more than
internal drives (Freud) and instead identified the role of society and others
had on individual personality development and functioning. He launched
the Child Guidance Movement in Austria, which was brought to US by
Rudolph Dreikers. Adele's concepts: overcompensation for felt inferiority,
social interest, sibling birth order, and working with families in front of a live
audience.
Nathan Ackerman - ✔✔Classified the family as a solitary unit of treatment
(family system as a client). He was always lively and open to effective use
of therapist self-disclosure while emphasizing the importance of paying
attention to non-verbal cues as a means to understanding the hidden and
unspoken aspects of family functioning. Most notable intervention: Tickling
the Defenses teasing, provoking, and stimulating the members of a family
to open up and say what is really on their minds. FATHER OF FAMILY
THERAPY
3
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
, Lyman Wynne - ✔✔Applied psychoanalytic ideas to his work with families
with severe mental and physical disorders. His concepts: pseudomutuality-
systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that hides conflict and
interferes with intimacy, pseudo hostility- volatile and intense way of
disguising and distorting both affection and splits, Rubber-Fence boundary-
the families seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly impermeable to
information from outside systems.
Kurt Lewin (group therapy) - ✔✔Field theory, " the whole of group was
greater than the sum of its individuals". Developed the process of change:
1) unfreezing- creating the motivation and readiness to change, 2)
changing- helping the client to see, judge, feel, and react to things
differently, based on a new point of view, 3) refreezing- helping the client to
integrate the new point of view into the organization as well as the
individual personality).
Wilfred Bion (Group therapy) - ✔✔Studied groups, importance of group
dynamics, Process vs. content
Jacob Moreno (Group therapy) - ✔✔Created a term Psychodrama
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